![]() Animals, landscapes, objects, and an array of characters serve as sites for big, human questions to play out in distilled form. ![]() “Poems primarily about painting and representation give way to images that become central characters in a sequence of fable-like pieces. "Siken’s stark, startling collection focuses tightly on both the futility and the importance of creating art."- Booklist "oems of passion, examining what it means to love, to be, and to create."- Vanity Fair * "Slippery, magnetic riffs on the arbitrary divisions made by the human mind in light of the mathematical abstractions that delete them poetry lovers will want to read."- Library Journal, starred review “This may be the most anticipated poetry book of the last decade.expect it to haunt you.”- NPR.org In this restless, swerving book simple questions-such as, Why paint a bird? -are immediately complicated by concerns of morality, human capacity, and the ways we look to art for meaning and purpose while participating in its-and our own-invention. ![]() In reviewing Richard Siken's first book, Crush, the New York Times wrote that "his territory is passion and eloquence collide and fuse." In this long-awaited follow-up to Crush, Siken turns toward the problems of making and representation, in an unrelenting interrogation of our world of doublings. ![]()
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